Oldest thing in use in your house? ( Spouses don’t count)

A quilt my paternal grandmother hand quilted when I was born. My first name is embroidered on one corner. I'm 76. I'm sitting in bed right now with it covering me. I had it in a box for years and finally started using it a couple years ago.

Like others, we have various spoons and knives from my parents kitchen but we have a bookcase we made from my granny’s oak bed head. When we were married first we had the bed - 2 oak ends with a metal ‘spring’ between for the mattress. When we got a proper divan we made the bookcase at woodwork class. It has served to hold grandchildren’s’ toys and books since they started arriving.

I inherited a mahogany bureau and handsome chest of drawers, both well over a hundred years old. Sadly, my family don't want them, and neither do antique dealers because, after all these years, they have some flaws. There is a local ReFurnish store, but I know from experience that dealers buy antique items for a song and sell them on at much higher prices. If only younger people appreciated fine wood, brass handles, dove tailed joints and durability. Meanwhile, they remain the
oldest items in my house.
I also have a riding whip that was given to my mother when she was six. That must have been in 1912. And she told me she hated learning to ride!

My great-grandmother’s ruby engagement ring from 1890. I wore it once and lost it. I was lucky enough to have it returned and I haven’t worn it since (40 years).

Probably old family photos, going back to the time of the first world war.
A glass trifle bowl from around 1920’s.
Sherry glasses, same era.

My Victorian tip top kitchen table that is used daily.

My maternal grandfather’s silver tablespoon he used as a baker shortly after he left school. One side is worn away from use.

I also use my ma in laws electric knife, it was one of the first on the market. When I could wield a piping bag I used her icing piping nozzles which are older than Mr C.

We were given a hand mixer for a wedding gift in 1969, it’s still going strong and still causes amusement when we recall the giver was a former boyfriend who liked to stir.

i have a small wine glass with the date 1893 engraved on it

Candlesticks, well over 100 years old, brought over from Europe 1939. Candles are lit in them every Friday, just as my ancestors did.

A China milk jug that belonged to my grandmother which has “think of me” written on it. I know mum was a young girl when she remembers it being used and acquired it on her mum’s passing. I now have it. No idea of its age but possibly over 90